My wife and I have a 10.5 week old golden lab German Shepard, and possibly Great Pyrenees mix. We rescued him at 9 weeks so we’ve had him for about a week and a half.
For background my wife and I grew up in golden and lab families with our families adopting puppies. So this isn’t our first puppy experience.
Now the issue. He’s biting us. I get he’s a puppy and teething. But ideally we don’t want him doing that lol. Everything I read is you don’t punish, you distract with a toy. Problem is we try to distract him with his favorite toy and he just grabs it, drops it right away, then goes back to trying to bite our hands, ankles, and face. He’s even starting to snarl and show teeth at us when he’s in that monster mode.
So are me and my wife allowing poor behavior? Or is he just being a 10 week old puppy? Last thing we want is him to grow up thinking it’s okay to bite us or other people or on top of that show any type of aggression and then because of it all he gets taken away from us
Any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated.
TLDR: puppy is biting us and snarling. Is he just being a puppy or are we allowing poor behavior?
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